The Philippines!

Wow! What a time we have had in Manila. From our first hour here we began planning 13 hours of child care that had to follow along with what was being taught on in the 50th year of YWAM celebration for the next day. We pulled it off though, and quite successfully to if I don't say so myself.

It has been such an amazing opportunity to be a part of many things that YWAM Manila is doing. We have been able to work with feeding, and TB programs as well as working with elementary, highschool, and college aged students. There is such a wide variety of ministries that go on here, from bathing the dumpsite children to home visitations of sponsored college students. In this time I have really been able to see the team step out into teaching, for some it is there first time. It is great to see every one of them step out into their gifting, and do it joyfully. The Manila base offers the opportunity to join in the ministry after DTS, and I could easily see how somebody would want to join what they are doing here.

It has been a tiring week, also made worse by the fact that 4 of us have cold like symptoms (including me), but we are not worn down. In fact we are thriving and much fruit has come out of some of the pressure we have been put under.

Tomorrow we leave for Baguio where we will be for exactly one month. We are excited for all that will happen there, and we are especially excited for the cooler weather!

Thank you for your continued support and prayers. Please pray for health for our team so that we will all be 100% by the time we arrive in Baguio!


Myself eating Balut, a Filipino treat. It's a developed chicken egg 17 days old.

Feeding Program & Bible story.

Hakon, on our way to ministry.

Washing the dumpsite children.

A Jeepney, public transportation.

Getting Ready To Go...Is The Philippines Ready For Us?

It seems to me as though this Philippines outreach has snuck up on me. Thats not to say I feel unprepared in any way, just that is feels like this school has whizzed by. This being the second outreach I have helped lead, I feel a lot more at ease and comfortable in the position. It also doesn’t hurt that the Philippines is a english speaking nation, especially in the big cities that we will be visiting.

We will begin our journey to the Philippines in Manila, the capital. There we are helping out at a 50th year of YWAM celebration that is being run around the world throughout this year. We will also be helping out with the slum ministries as a squatter’s village has been established on top of Manila’s main garbage dump.

From Manila we go to Baguio. There we are going to be teaching in three separate Discipleship Training Weeks, a very condensed version of a DTS. We are the speakers for the schools and each member of our team will be leading lectures, small groups, worship, and so on.

Olongapo is our final destination for ministry. It is estimated that 8% of people in Olongapo are prostitutes. We will be working in a restoration home for women that mentors, councils, and restores former prostitutes. There we will be teaching the women and girls in the house, displaying what is means to be brothers and sisters in Christ, and actually going into the bars to talk with these women and the customers. The last team that visited Olongapo, through a move of God, was actually able to get a 16 year old girl named Hannah and her son into the restoration house where she is now thriving and saving up to do her DTS in the Philippines.

The team is excited to go and everyone is doing fantastic. It’s another small team, but another all-star team. Again is seems like this DTS lecture phase has flown by, but I am so excited to see all God has in store for us in the Philippines.



Baptismal service


Performing Samoan dance at the talent show.